Drawing Tips

TIP FROM ANDREW

My own personal rule of thumb. Every drawing should these 3 parts. Highlights, mid tones and darks. Highlights can be the white of your paper or a very light colour. Midtones are your greys or any colour that becomes grey when you convert it to grey tones. Darks are your solid blacks or very dark colours. With these 3 tones in your pictures, you will bring out the shapes of objects more clearly. (some exceptions just have highlights and darks)

I find that the more contrast I have between each of the 3 tones, the more crisp the picture becomes.

Squinting your eyes when you are on the streets can help you see the 3 tones more clearly.

TIPS FROM DON LOW

Plein Air and Location Sketching- what to look out for:

Light changes significantly every few minutes.

Working on small surfaces reduces the amount of time spent covering the surface and therefore helps in quickly capturing the light and shadows.

There isn’t time to waste or agonize over decisions.

... If the center of interest is a particular light effect, it is important to memorize it, as it will be gone in a moment.